Battle for Azeroth Hunter Pets Guide

As Battle for Azeroth draws closer, our team of writers is hard at work creating new guides for the expansion. We've seen many hunter pet changes throughout the beta, ranging from a revamp of the pet specialization system to new pet families to tame, like Krolusks.\r\rOur Beast Mastery and Marksmanship Hunter writers have teamed up to write the Battle for Azeroth Hunter Pet Guide!\r\rIn this guide, we'll learn about the following:\rExplanation of how the new pet families work, including base specialization abilities.\rImportant general changes to pets and aggro.\rNew pet families to tame, and new pet models to existing families like Unicorns.\rA list of special abilities associated with each pet family in Battle for Azeroth.\rWhat's shaping up to be the top pets for Beast Mastery, MM, and Survival in Battle for Azeroth.\r\r\rClick here for the Battle for Azeroth Hunter Pet Guide!\rAbout the Authors\r\r \rMy name's Bendak and I've been playing Hunters exclusively since the launch of WoW. There is no better class! In addition to the Beast Mastery Guide here at Wowhead, you can find me at my personal Hunter blog Eyes of the Beast, as co-host of the Hunting Party Podcast, on Twitter @BendakWoW, and Discord at Bendak#2786.\r\r \r\r\r\r\r \rI'm Moofz. I've been playing Hunter since Warlords of Draenor and have never looked back. I have recently taken over the Marksmanship Guide in BFA for Wowhead. In addition to the class guide, I have written both the Marksmanship M+ Guide and Beast Mastery M+ Guide here at Wowhead for Legion and plan to maintain them through BFA. I am also a Moderator and Expert in the Trueshotlodge Hunter discord. If you wanna chat, feel free to ping me in TSL, swing by my Twitch stream Moofzy, on Twitter @Moofz2 or add me on Discord at Moofz#6427.\r\r\r\r\r

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Commento di Ellore

I would gladly pay for void storage if we could start storing pets there. Seriously, hunters need more stable slots!

Commento di Yaldrik

on 2018-06-10T00:17:08-05:00

Thanks for the guide!

I'm glad to see that some of the exotic pets are getting pretty nice secondary abilities, but there are still some that really need actual secondary abilities or need their secondary abilities reworked.

Chimaera's and Worms cant attack while they use their special attacks (Froststorm Breath and Burrow Attack), so you're better off not using them or else youll be giving up a lot of damage.

Devilsaur's Feast ability is pretty useless in combat and pointless out of combat, not to mention you cant even heal off all enemy corpses

Pterrordax's have slowfall which is nice but feathermanes (nonexotics) also provide that. Slowfall also isnt very useful for combat either.

Rylak's which have somehow been completely left out of this guide, don't even have a combat ability and have the same slowfall issue as Pterrordax's

Water Striders got a purge which is nice, but waterwalking breaks on damage making it useless in combat.

Fix these and I think I can live with this new pet system

Commento di snoopyjy

on 2018-06-10T00:20:01-05:00

I have been ignoring all hunter pet topics until they add more slots since I am still burning from dumping an old classic pet for Fenyir

Commento di Putridpiranha

on 2018-06-10T00:43:31-05:00

BOOO, krolusks are exotic only, booooo.

Wish they'd just change it so BM can access exotic abilities for all pet families so that all specs can access exotic appearances, since the 3 specs have entirely different playstyles now. BM isn't just defined by being "the exotic pet spec" anymore. It's an actual playstyle choice now.

This change would benefit BM players because they could use any pet without feeling "gimped" by using a normal pet and it'd benefit the other 2 specs since they could use something from the 13 (!) exotic pet families in this game. But whatever lets stick to the archaic system of limiting choice for no reason when it's less relevant than ever.

Was already hating the survival hunter changes, seeing that I can't even use a krolusk as a melee hunter is just double-whammy to my soul.

Commento di Nazthori

on 2018-06-10T01:09:49-05:00

\r\rRylak's which have somehow been completely left out of this guide, don't even have a combat ability and have the same slowfall issue as Pterrordax's\r\r\rRylaks were merged with Chimaeras.

Commento di kimmuryiel

on 2018-06-10T02:45:35-05:00

I would gladly pay for void storage if we could start storing pets there. Seriously, hunters need more stable slots!\r\ragreed. I know there are plenty of hunter players who prefer sticking with only a few pets (RPers mostly maybe?) But I like to collect them. Back in MoP, I had every tint of every cat model (spirit beasts included) on a single hunter (now, there are too many cat models to fit them all in 55 slots. 67 cats now.)

Commento di blurfox

on 2018-06-10T03:02:15-05:00

"When you enter a dungeon, Growl\u2019s auto-cast is automatically turned off to avoid pulling aggro from the tank (you can turn it back on if you want). When you leave the dungeon, it gets flipped back on automatically." what a time to be alive!\rAlso I'd give everything to have more stable slots... I had to give up on a few pets in Legion to get Fenryr and some other, I don't even have a feathermane or a mechanical one yet, no space :(\rI'd love to see the stable as a new collection slot, and one would "unlock appearances" by taming pets :)\rI guess I'd be satisfied with a 100 slot stable, at least...

Commento di darthgummibear

on 2018-06-10T04:30:30-05:00

Until they add more stable slots I'm going to have a hard time caring about new hunter pets.

Commento di kodora1316

on 2018-06-10T05:06:47-05:00

Until they add more stable slots I'm going to have a hard time caring about new hunter pets.\r\rThis.

Commento di FlyingToaster

on 2018-06-10T06:30:59-05:00

"I've been playing Hunters exclusively since the launch of WoW. There is no better class!"\rLmfao if you never play any other class of course you're gonna think the 1 class you've ever played is the best one..

Commento di avatarofshadow

on 2018-06-10T06:57:19-05:00

I think it would be much cooler if any hunter could tame any pet, but BM hunters got an "exotic" ability from each pet the other two specs didn't get.

Commento di ayeee

on 2018-06-10T07:24:20-05:00

Yea. still no new stable slots while adding 2142142 new pets every expac.\rPet Stable Ui looks like vanilla milk shake.\rDead game.

Commento di Tyerr

on 2018-06-10T07:26:39-05:00

"I've been playing Hunters exclusively since the launch of WoW. There is no better class!"\rLmfao if you never play any other class of course you're gonna think the 1 class you've ever played is the best one..\r\rWhy so serious?

Commento di moofox6

on 2018-06-10T08:50:22-05:00

I have often thought that Hunter is probably the hardest class to 'reroll' or create another hunter character elsewhere. I would love to have another Hunter on a server I spend time on with friends, but I hate not having access to the many rare\/challenge pets that I've collected on my solo hunter. I'd love to see hunter pets move to a similar system as the appearances\/heirlooms\/toys etc. One pane that houses all of our pet collection.

Commento di Tombsv

Commento di BendakWoW

on 2018-06-10T10:04:54-05:00

"I've been playing Hunters exclusively since the launch of WoW. There is no better class!"\rLmfao if you never play any other class of course you're gonna think the 1 class you've ever played is the best one..\r\rObviously I meant maining a Hunter! (who doesn't have alts). Point still stands though: There's Hunters, then there's support classes for the Hunters. :P\r\rRylak's which have somehow been completely left out of this guide, don't even have a combat ability and have the same slowfall issue as Pterrordax's\r\rI added a note mentioning that Rylaks are now part of the Chimaera family. I also agree that Worm\/Chimaera\/Devilsaur exotic abilities are lacking. Sent in lots of feedback about those. I'm just happy they finally gave every pet at least something. \r\rIs it not better to do this guide after the taming pass?\r\rAnyway, really worried because they haven't actually changed anything about the stable master yet. :\/(\r\rThe guide mostly covers the changes to specs and families and not all the individual pets (Petopia is good for that). The taming pass is well underway but definitely not complete yet.\r\rAs for Stable slots.... well, yeah. When almost half my stable is taken by spirit beasts and the rest are rares or challenge tames I don't know how I'm supposed to fit in some of these new ones. The answer we get from Blizzard every expansion is "it's on our radar" but that's it. I'm at the point where I'd pay a handsome sum of gold for another page of stable slots.

Commento di zouzouni

on 2018-06-10T10:09:09-05:00

More Stable slots....more stable slots. Did i say that that WE NEED MORE STABLE SLOTS?

Commento di SquirePip

on 2018-06-10T12:30:27-05:00

I think it would be much cooler if any hunter could tame any pet, but BM hunters got an "exotic" ability from each pet the other two specs didn't get.\r\rI think it would be even better if you could go to the pet trainer and pay\/train to have your pet (no matter what family) learn any of the pet family abilities so you could actually have the pet you want with the ability you want like a cat with the snare ability.

Commento di SquirePip

on 2018-06-10T12:33:58-05:00

"I've been playing Hunters exclusively since the launch of WoW. There is no better class!"\rLmfao if you never play any other class of course you're gonna think the 1 class you've ever played is the best one..\r\rObviously I meant maining a Hunter! (who doesn't have alts). Point still stands though: There's Hunters, then there's support classes for the Hunters. :P\r\rRylak's which have somehow been completely left out of this guide, don't even have a combat ability and have the same slowfall issue as Pterrordax's\r\rI added a note mentioning that Rylaks are now part of the Chimaera family. I also agree that Worm\/Chimaera\/Devilsaur exotic abilities are lacking. Sent in lots of feedback about those. I'm just happy they finally gave every pet at least something. \r\rIs it not better to do this guide after the taming pass?\r\rAnyway, really worried because they haven't actually changed anything about the stable master yet. :\/(\r\rThe guide mostly covers the changes to specs and families and not all the individual pets (Petopia is good for that). The taming pass is well underway but definitely not complete yet.\r\rAs for Stable slots.... well, yeah. When almost half my stable is taken by spirit beasts and the rest are rares or challenge tames I don't know how I'm supposed to fit in some of these new ones. The answer we get from Blizzard every expansion is "it's on our radar" but that's it. I'm at the point where I'd pay a handsome sum of gold for another page of stable slots.\r\rthe problem with more stable slots is no matter how many Blizz added, 5 minutes later pet collectors would start screaming again that they need more. Having 30 pets is more than I ever dreamed about having back when I started playing my hunter over a decade ago. Just gotta realize your a pet hoarder and fix the problem yourself instead of hoping Blizz will enable you.

Commento di doeremi

on 2018-06-10T15:39:45-05:00

Can someone please tell me about the falconry animations? \r\rWill these birds of prey be able to sit on our characters in some way? There are a number of animations (and they are gorgeous) I would absolutely LOVE (and geek out) to see put into player character play. PLEASE BLIZZARD!